Ryan Kim

• Founded a real-time, extendable multi-modal messaging platform that combines text messaging, voice calls, and real-time knowledgebases into a single app • Built a high-performance, event-driven backend with Rust to handle handling high-throughput real-time event streaming with the clients, while enforcing complex user-defined security policies • Designed a modular frontend with React + MobX with advanced features like split-screens, adjustable panels, and customizable keybinds, as well as establishing a modular design system for designing the user interface rapidly in a code-first way • Implemented a expansive developer API and SDK available in multiple programming languages for integrating various automation, in-app activities, chatbots, and various other features • Operated a private cloud using Kubernetes, ArgoCD and various cloud-native technologies, which saved over 80% in costs compared to equivalent on Google Cloud Platform • Collaborated with the end-users and other stakeholders, directly on the Mikoto platform for more rapid communication on steering the company • Scaled the platform to for thousands of active users, Achieved profitability early as a bootstrapped founder

• Worked closely with the product designers in key industry partners, such as Nike, to adapt Color Variation for footwear prototyping, reducing the cost and iteration time for generating colorway variations • Led the development and release of the Color Variation tool from end to end, building a system that combines vision LLMs, image models, and traditional algorithmic solutions, with 200K+ total colorway variations generated to date • Prototyped the Gallery feature, a 2D asset management experience with a unified grid layout, collection system, and redesigned asset library sidebar • Built PBR material extraction tooling, shipping full-stack features from 0-1, across both the Studio, Workbench, and the Platform pipeline

• Core contributor to Stack Auth’s open-source user management platform (6.7k+ GitHub stars), building the permissions system, OAuth account merging, and payment infrastructure that enables customers to start monetizing their application immediately • Built and extended the developer and admin dashboards, including team management, time-series analytics, and configuration UIs across the platform

• Worked on the React Native components of Arrowmancer, one of the earliest commercial GenAI games in the world, developed in React Native and Unity • Operated closely with the design teams to implement and integrate the Figma designs and Lottie animations into the React Native portion of the game • Discovered and fixed various bugs that were discovered found in the process of migrating the codebase to TypeScript

• Architected the development of a scalable microservice-based backend using C# and Go for a mobile game • Built tools that allowed client game code to be evaluated simultaneously on the server, improving security and reducing latency by over 70% • Collaborated closely with the client team to reduce iteration cycles on backend and frontend by over 95% through improving documentation and implementing hot reloading for builds